Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-09-14
REFUSED HER pRoFFEaEo LOVE.
John Harris Explains Why Miss Lou Nor.
rison sl.o. Him.

John Harris Explains why Miss Lou Nor.
rison Shot Him.
CAMBRIDGE, Ohio, Sept. 13,-The al,
temp ted assassination of John Harris OF
Caldwell ut u hotel in this place attracts
much attention in this section, Mr.. Har-
ris is about " years old. and is the son
of a wealthy man, and has Travelled ex-
tensively. He is engaged to be married
to Miss Nellie Geiger, the daughter of
Col. Fred Geiger of GAINESVILLE, who is
connected with the Adams express com
pany. The fact that Miss Geiger was
soon to become Mrs. Harris undoubtedly
led to the mysterious woman in the case
firing the two pistol balls into the head
of young Harris.
Young Harris said the woman who
shot him is Miss Lou Morrison of Gilmer
county, West Virginia, the daughter of a
prominent lumber dealer there. She is
described as a pronounced brunei or
more than ordinary attractions and per-
maps 20 years old. Harris says that
something over u year ago he met Miss
Morrison at her home. Sh fell in love
with him, and not caring to reciprocate
or offend her sensibilities he left thu
neighborhood, and for a whole year he
has been fleeing from her proffered love,
only to receive what may probably prove
his death-wounds at her hands within
thirty miles of his home.
When he left Gilmer county she fol-
lowed him, and he led her u long chase
through Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia,
Missouri and Texas, sometimes escaping
from her in one town or city to come face
to face with her in another. Sometimes
a man whose name he was never able to
learn n who was apparently a detective
logged his steps and seemed to put Miss
Morris on his trail He left the states
and made.s tour OF Mexico. But The
mysterious man, and often the importu-
nate woman, came upon him. He came
; back to ias= United States only to be
haunted by the woman and her myster-
ious knight-errant. His steps were dog
ged to the very threshold of his ATTAIN
cied's house. Monday last Harris started
to GAINESVILLE to call upon Miss Geiger,
and to throw his prosecutors off the track
he went to Cleveland. Tbs first person
he met was Miss Morrison.
He fed from Cleveland to Canton on a
late train, and the next. night she found
him at his hotel in that city. Avoiding
her again, he went to Newark, and there
Miss Morrison again co nfronted him.
Wednesday evening he was aware that
she was accompanied by her strange
male escort. Slipping away from New
ark, he went to GAINESVILLE, hoping that
they would not discover his whereabouts
Thursday evening he called at Col
Geiger's residence and passed a pleasant
evening with his atianced and other
members of the family. At a late hour
q carriage stopped in front OF ale beuse
and as, Mr.. Harris stepped outside to take
his departure he saw that the occupants
We're Miss Morrison II her mysterious
escort, He re-entered the house, and,
making some common place excuse for
30 doing, departed by the rear gate aud
took q night train from GAINESVILLE to
Cambridge, where he stopped at the hotei
Berwick. There Miss Morrison fouaf
him, and after asking him to- marry her
shot him.